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The public will believe anything

  The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. - Mark Twain Energy is eternal delight. - William Blake Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. - Liberace If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. - Robert Louis Stevenson Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates Be sincere; be brief; be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb READ MORE

Trust your instincts

  Image by Grok Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown The world belongs to the energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson You can observe a lot just by watching. - Yogi Berra, Berra's Law He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles Du Bos Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington The public will ...

What's money?

  Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. --Bob Dylan Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. --Rita Mae Brown Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. --George S. Patton Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. --Francis Quarles For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. --Virginia Woolf I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. --Joseph Conrad A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. --Nelson Mandela I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Edith Sitwell What you do speaks so loud that I can...

10 Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photo: Wikipedia As we grow old...the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. - Harriet Beecher Stowe To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. - Benjamin Franklin None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand Foch A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell